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1. SMIC International FPGA product line and customer orientation, with Efinix first push products 2018 production;
Set micro-network December 13 News, SMIC and Efinix, programmable products platform and technology innovation enterprises, today jointly announced that SMIC 40 Nano technology platform successfully delivered Efinix first batch of QUANTUMTM programmable accelerator product samples. From the use of SMIC Physical design tool (PDK) for product development, to the system into effect delivery of product samples, both sides in less than six months time to record the efficiency of creating this important milestone. QUANTUMTM Accelerator products are expected to be put into production in 2018, facing large-scale programmable accelerator market.
' This is Efinix's first international cooperation with SMIC, and their strong support impressed us. SMIC, with our business and technical cooperation, has effectively helped us to create an important cornerstone of successful product development. "From now on we can focus on key product development in 2018 and accelerate the deployment of our first Quantum accelerator product line to serve the global market for large-scale applications," said Zhang Shaoyi, co-founder, chief executive and president of Efinix. '
Efinix's Quantum programmable accelerator technology can increase the area utilization rate by four times times, obviously superior to the traditional programming technology. This groundbreaking advantage enables Efinix silicon products to be competitive in the fast growing markets of custom logic, depth learning, and computational acceleration.
' SMIC 40 nano Low Earth leakage technology platform has achieved production over five years, with more than 220 products. We are delighted to be able to work with Efinix to develop quantum programmable technology on our reliable advanced technology platform. ' FPGA (field Programmable gate array) product has great challenge in technology development, but Efinix's quantum technology has greatly promoted its development, "said Xu Tianxi, senior vice president of SMIC Global marketing. We look forward to working with Efinix to launch the first product line, and support the future of common development and manufacturing. '
With more than 30 years of experience in the integrated circuit industry, Altera, a former senior vice president of global operations and engineering at the company (now Intel), said: ' This is the first time that I have seen such a high efficiency in the development of programmable products in the industry. ' The agnostic nature of silicon technology in the quantum architecture instinctively creates such efficiencies. Unlike the leading FPGA products, this technology does not require a special silicon process to enhance performance and logical component density. '
Efinix is working with a number of customers to develop. Detailed information on quantum programmable accelerator chip products will be released in the first quarter of 2018.
2. SMIC Electronics purchasing equipment, grab into the nor flash market;
Fast flash memory (NOR Flash) industry supply and demand continue to maintain health standards, following Macronix, Huadian, such as Taiwan-related operators in 2017 operation turned red, after the test of East China, Ling Sheng, Nanmao, etc. also rob a lot of NOR Flash seal test orders, the mainland relevant seal testing industry also fancy NOR flash business opportunities, Medium-core and long-power joint-venture SEAL testing industry for the first time to test equipment manufacturer nor flash test equipment, familiar with the test equipment industry said that the memory industry recovery momentum, is expected to last 3-5 years. SMIC is a joint venture between SMIC and Qualcomm in August 2014, with the investment of the mainland's Integrated circuit industry investment fund and Qualcomm's subsidiary Qualcomm Global Trading Pte Ltd, starting with the advanced 12-inch convex block and wafer test, To provide the middle wafer manufacturing and testing services, and expand the 3D IC business. Test equipment manufacturers love TAK million test and the middle of the process (MEOL) test plant medium-core long electric signed a large number of procurement contracts. In accordance with this contract, SMIC will buy a large number of memory test system T5830 from the ED test, for testing the Peripheral Interface (SPI) NOR flash device, promising organic light-emitting bipolar (OLED) and Touch Panel sensor chip (TDDI) rapid growth driven, SPI NOR Flash device demand continues to strengthen. Although NOR Flash was once the field of international manufacturers, 2016 in NAND flash (storage fast flash memory) of the squeeze, NOR flash market accounted for a once less than NAND flash 10%, but after the international large companies exit, the capacity gap is made up by the Taiwan Department, Currently includes digital cameras, game consoles, mobile devices still need NOR flash support, and this year's OLED panel mobile device in addition to Samsung Electronics, plus Apple (AAPL) IPhone x follow up, in addition Tddi chip also with the Taiwan IC Design manufacturers gradually volume, NOR Flash supply and demand continued to tension, and this year's consumer electronics products to promote NOR flash big out of the killer products, including the world's best-selling Nintendo switch game consoles, memory industry believes that NOR flash at least to the next half, the shortage situation will not be relieved, China State Electric, Macronix this year, capacity has also been under the pack. Love million will supply medium-core long electric T5830 memory tester, the main test products include various types of mobile electronic devices flash memory, to provide the best low-cost large amount of testing capacity, T5830 system can perform wafer test and low foot to high level IC to provide final test. The T5830 system data transmission speed is up to the highest, and can be configured in 4 digital foot position, while testing up to 2,304 devices. In addition to testing nor flash devices, the T5830 system also supports NAND flash devices, smart cards, single row direct-Plug memory (SIM), electronic erase-only memory (EEPROM), and other embedded fast flash memory.
3. The introduction of Li-Heng Microelectronics Zhenjiang vigorously develop integrated circuit sealing and testing industry;
China Securities Network (reporter Li Xingyae) aimed at the characteristics of the field of "intensive cultivation" is becoming a new idea of local government development of integrated circuit industry, Zhenjiang focused on the field of integrated circuit sealing and testing. After the merger of the Dagang shares in the semiconductor, Zhenjiang again introduced Jiangsu Li Heng Microelectronics ("Jiangsu Li Heng").
Jiangsu Li Heng held a opening ceremony in Zhenjiang on 12th, the Director of the Management office of the Science Park of Zhenjiang National University, Xu Renlan, chairman of Jiangsu Li Heng Microelectronics Co., Ltd. Shengjianwa, general manager Baobing, etc. attend. Shengjianwa introduction, Jiangsu Li Heng Plan 2018 to start the factory construction, will be mainly around memory storage products to build upstream and downstream industrial chain; As a research and development, production and sales of enterprises, the company is currently focused on solid-state storage hard disk SSD, next will increase the memory DDR products and servers, micro-server and other product lines.
To this, Xu Renlan said, the Jiangsu Li Heng Microelectronics settled in Zhenjiang, is Zhenjiang to build integrated circuit packaging testing industry new progress. Data show that in August last year in Zhenjiang held the first IC industry innovation high-end dialogue meeting, Zhenjiang New area said that the acquisition of the port shares of the semiconductor, the IC has become its integrated circuit industrial park leader; Next, Zhenjiang New area will be innovative investment means, focusing on the development of integrated circuit packaging testing industry.
4. Map technology to help Shanghai AI surveillance System, a few seconds to identify the suspect
NetEase technology News December 13, China has published an intelligent surveillance system capable of identifying criminals from 2 billion face databases within seconds. The system connects to millions of CCTV cameras and uses artificial intelligence to screen targets.
It is reported that the system, known as the ' Eye of dragonflies ', has been opened in Shanghai to track hundreds of of wanted criminals. The technology is developed in accordance with the map technology in Shanghai, according to the map technology that the eye system of dragonflies can scan photos from the national database. These photos also include photographs of the city's outsiders and photos taken at the airport and port.
According to the South China Morning Post, the system identified a wanted man entering the subway station on the first day of the Shanghai subway operation in January. After matching his features with the database, the Dragonfly's eye system sent his photos to the police, who were then arrested by the police. Over the next three months, the system helped police catch 567 suspects in the Shanghai subway.
"We live in Shanghai, the city's population reached 24 million," said Zhu. The sheer size of the population is a huge challenge to the government's regulatory efforts. It is not feasible to help without technology. Even if we have a lot of cameras installed, it's a daunting task. '
He added: ' You can't watch all the videos, and searching for suspects from the video is not only time-consuming, but also requires too much resources to get meaningful results from such a large amount of data. But artificial intelligence can do this easily and rely on existing infrastructure. Dragonfly Eye System in the future will not only be used for police criminal identification tracking work, it can also help the ATM machine to identify people, so that the bank card history. '
But not everyone welcomes the technology, which is very similar to the security system in the 2002 sci-fi film Minority Report. The NGO Human Rights Observatory claims that a security system similar to that created by technology violates privacy and targets errors. Such systems should be designed to track and predict the behaviour of dissident groups and activists, including those with extreme ideas.